MR. NAVALNY has Nordic good looks, a caustic sense of humor and no political organization.

Five years ago, he quit the liberal party Yabloko, frustrated with the liberals’ infighting and isolation from mainstream Russian opinion. Liberals, meanwhile, have deep reservations about him, because he espouses Russian nationalist views. He has appeared as a speaker alongside neo-Nazis and skinheads, and once starred in a video that compares dark-skinned Caucasus militants to cockroaches. While cockroaches can be killed with a slipper, he says that in the case of humans, “I recommend a pistol.” (1)


(1) Barry, Ellen (9 December 2011) "Rousing Russia With a Phrase", New York Times. Accessed Online at:
https://web.archive.org/web/20111210125935/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/world/europe/the-saturday-profile-blogger-aleksei-navalny-rouses-russia.html

I criticise all of your one-star reviews, because you have no knowledge of literature to watch this video.

I think it is important to know what Navalny feels about these issues.

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Whoever named this video like this is a liar. There is no a single word about muslims in this video!! This is pro-gun advertisement that shows random terrorist jumping into the room. Two very important things to note here:
1. nobody compares terrorists to cockroaches. Read mercury's comment below.
2. nobody says nationality of this terrorist. Probably whoever named video like this thinks that all terrorist are muslims, so...

Title is a lie. Muslims weren't even mentioned, it's about weapon storage legalization. He compares criminals penetrating one's house to cockroaches and flies. There was a pic of terrorist gang, if that's what you've equated it to 'muslims' - it's you who are racist here.

This video was made in 2006-2007.

Russia went through a lot of terrorist attacks throughout that time. Such as Beslan School Siege and Kaspiysk, 9th of May parade bombings. All together around 19 terrorist attacks through 2000-2008. Early 2000 was a quite tragic time in that sense.

In this video, he NEVER compared Muslim nations to cockroaches.

He merely compared terrorist to cockroaches.

Please don't take this video out of context.

From the article "Rousing Russia With a Phrase" - The New York Times, 9 December 2011:
«Five years ago, he quit the liberal party Yabloko, frustrated with the liberals’ infighting and isolation from mainstream Russian opinion. Liberals, meanwhile, have deep reservations about him, because he espouses Russian nationalist views. He has appeared as a speaker alongside neo-Nazis and skinheads, and once starred in a video that compares dark-skinned Caucasus militants to cockroaches. While cockroaches can be killed with a slipper, he says that in the case of humans, “I recommend a pistol.”»

mercurial_chemister is right. Title of this video is really misleading.

Alexel Navalny did say derogatory statements about Georgians and referring to Muslims. Грызуны ('grizuny'; literally meaning "rodents", a pun with the Russian word 'gruziny' for Georgians) is a Russian ethnic slur for Georgians. One of those who used this slur was Alexei Navalny. In 2008 during the Russo-Georgian War, Navalny repeatedly called Georgians grizuny and said he very much wanted to strike Georgians with cruise missiles. In response to criticism, in 2013 Navalny said that he regretted calling Georgians rodents but stood by everything else he said at the time.

In a standard practice by Russian government sponsored media the video of Navalny promoting gun rights is spun and misrepresented as racist to users who don't speak Russian and wouldn't know any better just from watching the video. As someone who in fact speaks Russian naively I can say that it's far from the case.

The video merely infers that when your accosted by bugs you need the right tools to defend yourself and likewise you need the right tools to defend yourself from terrorists.

It did not mention Muslims or compare them to insects. It simply presented a modern threat (terrorism) and stated that Russians need the right tools (guns) to deal with it.